T-Mobile pushed LTE speeds to near 1 Gbps in a demonstration using Nokia’s deployed 4.5G Pro technology.
The demonstration, conducted at T-Mobile’s lab in Bellevue, Washington, encompassed technologies currently live in the operator’s network, including carrier aggregation, 256 QAM (Quadrature Amplitude Modulation) and 4×4 MIMO (Multiple Input and Multiple Output) on Nokia’s commercially available radio access hardware.
T-Mobile has already launched 4×4 MIMO, carrier aggregation and 256 QAM modulation. Its network currently provides speeds up to 400 Mbps.
Overview of the demo solution:
- Three-carrier aggregation technology using Bands 2 and 66.
- 4X4 MIMO technology for doubling peak speeds.
- 256 QAM, which is a higher order modulation scheme that allows an increase in peak data rates of up to 30% compared to 64 QAM.
- Nokia commercial LTE eNodeB.
“We’ve had the fastest LTE network for the last three straight years, but we never stop innovating. We demonstrated nearly 1 Gbps speeds over the air on LTE with our long-standing strategic partner, Nokia, to show how much more our network can do to achieve higher speeds and superior performance.”